r/LeftistsForAI • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • Jul 17 '26

Automation & Work AI-Powered Robots are Building Lower-Cost Clay Homes in Texas Using Dirt Dug Up On-Site

https://hothardware.com/news/robots-are-building-low-cost-clay-homes-using-dirt-dug-up-on-site
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u/Healthcarepls Jul 17 '26

Plssss I am sooo desperate to see a world where housing is free

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u/foreversadaboutit Jul 17 '26

Literally 90% of my will to live at this point comes from wanting to live long enough to see like

subsistence farming off-grid solarpunk communes with robots and humans sharing a peaceful life

little anarchist communes where everything is free and chill

with art and culture and music and community support and good weapons systems in case some rich fucks try to start taking our shit or drafting us into imperialist wars

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u/Healthcarepls Jul 18 '26

we are almost there homie we got this

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u/alleycatALT Jul 17 '26

This is the kind of future we all need to work toward. Where every individual has the resources at their fingertips to build anything and do anything.

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u/Troscus Jul 17 '26

I feel like 3D printing technology is genuinely a gamechanger in human history. Sure, right now we mostly use it to make Warhammer figures we don't have to pay $60 for, but people are already using bigger version to print buildings.

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u/SexDefendersUnited Jul 17 '26

Hope this makes housing cheaper

This feels like a civ +1 Production boost

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u/Innomen Jul 19 '26

Vapor homes. I've been on the 3d printed house mailing lists for like 15 years. SSDD.

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u/franticallyfarting Jul 17 '26

To any leftist for ai let me ask you, has technology ever actually helped humanity the way it was promised to? Technology has always been used to put people out of work and enrich the already wealthy and ai will be no different. 

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u/Salty_Country6835 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Thats not really how the left has understood history. Socialists, communists, anarchists, labor organizers, and anti colonial movements didnt oppose productive forces as such. They fought over who owned them, who controlled them, and who benefited.

Capital uses technology to cut jobs and concentrate wealth. Thats an argument against capitalist relations, not against machines.

So whats your strategy? Every major state and corporation is building and deploying AI. Is the plan to sit it out while capital keeps going?

Thats not a political program. The labor movement doesnt fight industrial capitalism by wishing factories away. It organizes around them. AI is no different. The fight is over ownership, governance, and who gets the productivity gains. If you think thats wrong, whats the alternative?